From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: scottwood@freescale.com
Cc: afleming@gmail.com, igal.liberman@freescale.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, madalin.bucur@freescale.com,
pebolle@tiscali.nl, joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se,
ppc@mindchasers.com, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:17:15 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151208.211715.790899872740551674.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449614678.15946.152.camel@freescale.com>
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:44:38 -0600
> On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 14:18 -0600, Andy Fleming wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:19 AM, <igal.liberman@freescale.com> wrote:
>> > From: Igal Liberman <igal.liberman@freescale.com>
>> >
>> > This patch adds the Ethernet MAC driver supporting the three
>> > different types of MACs: dTSEC, tGEC and mEMAC.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Igal Liberman <igal.liberman@freescale.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > +
>> > +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
>> > +
>> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>");
>>
>> I imagine this email address doesn't exist anymore, or won't soon.
>> This is also an issue in the ethernet driver (with my old address).
>> I'm not sure what the right approach is, but we shouldn't be putting
>> obsolete email addresses in the kernel.
>
> I don't think a MODULE_AUTHOR tag makes sense for drivers like this that had a
> lot of people work on them. git history is better for giving credit in such
> cases.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-09 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 7:19 [v9, 0/6] Freescale DPAA FMan igal.liberman
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 1/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MURAM support igal.liberman
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 2/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan support igal.liberman
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 3/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC support igal.liberman
2015-12-03 20:23 ` David Miller
2015-12-08 11:20 ` Liberman Igal
2015-12-03 22:42 ` Kenneth Klette Jonassen
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 4/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan SP support igal.liberman
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 5/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan Port Support igal.liberman
2015-12-03 7:19 ` [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver igal.liberman
2015-12-08 20:18 ` Andy Fleming
2015-12-08 22:44 ` Scott Wood
2015-12-09 2:17 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-12-09 10:10 ` Madalin-Cristian Bucur
2015-12-09 17:07 ` Scott Wood
2015-12-15 11:55 ` Liberman Igal
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